geraldgiam.sg Archives - 03 March 2012, Saturday

Whatever the solution we can think of to solve the train problems over the short run, we will not be able to resolve it. Not even if the opposition comes in. It is simply a matter of a system being built for a projected demand not consistent with today’s population and the lack of via...

This is the speech I delivered in Parliament today during the debate on Ministerial salaries. Mr Speaker, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to take part in this debate. Like my honourable colleague, Mr Chen Show Mao, I believe that the White Paper’s approach of benchmarking Mini...

I have filed one question for the Health Minister and two for the Transport Minister for the Parliamentary sitting on Monday 16 January 2012. 1. To ask the Minister for Health (a) whether means testing for patients at community hospitals and other step-down care facilities employs a d...

Mr Gerald Giam raised some daily issues – healthcare, transport, housing. While there could be planning and forecasting in the past, but who can predict the right number between demand and supply so accurately? And it is always a challenge to always find the optimal balance. And as th...

However, from my meetings with residents during meet-the-people sessions (MPS), I have encountered many who earn slightly more than $1,500 a month yet cannot afford to buy BTO flats. Some had just sold their flats, due to divorce or financial difficulty, and could not afford to pay th...

This morning, 17 Workers’ Party candidates in the General Election 2011, together with a few candidates from the PAP, NSP and SDP, witnessed the destruction of the ballot papers from the election. Under Singapore law, after an election, ballot papers must be sealed and stored in a sec...

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(Photo: Workers’ Party Facebook. More photos here .) Fazli, myself and a few friends and supporters visited Pulau Ubin on Saturday. According to residents on the island, there are only about 30 or so families left there. Despite this, we decided that since Ubin falls within the bounda...

“All this is a national tragedy and a stain on our collective moral consciences”. Gerald, this is strong and unnecessarily patronizing. not everyone agrees that “life” begins at conception–this is why foregrounding where you come from (your Christian beliefs) is only decent and approp...

(I have heard enough of those fearful remarks, pronounced with iron-clad certainty, about how ‘they’ will mark you, about how civil servants /must/ vote for the PAP. Most of my family members, friends, colleagues, have all said those things. Many people around me don’t even dare menti...

My friends, readers and fellow Singaporeans, this is the time where your actions can make a real difference to the future of Singapore. Don’t let this opportunity slip away. We need all hands on the deck now. The Workers’ Party is looking to recruit as many volunteers as possible to h...

TWO weeks ago, when I first read the news of the protests in Egypt, which followed the popular uprising and toppling of the government in Tunisia, I cynically remarked to my wife that the protests will carry on for a few days then fizzle out. Life in Egypt will then return to “normal”...